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• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  house and suck them out of you. No, really. I fully acknowledge that it ... your questions (which I have copied below) and learn some new things as ... curriculum. I went to a math and science Magnet program, so I came into MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  , and commenters are an even bigger part than others. Here's a brief ... Tube and MySpace and Facebook and even Wikipedia. And straying a little ... . And speaking of Weird Al- even our music is being influenced by this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  blue - I had no idea that my dad went to Korea (and from there, to Singapore and Cambodia). I like to think that my parents were actually secret agents before my sister and I were born, and now they're just picking their

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  the way home from my field hockey game, and when I awoke, what to my wondering eyes did appear but... snow?! I kid you not. It was snowing. And ... , since it is still October, and the snow was pretty wet. What is weird is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  and perils of vegetarianism, but I got a little involved this evening ... , ooh, I'm super-tired right now, yeah? Not gonna lie." And when I'm super ... back tomorrow and read about homemade gnocchi in butter-thyme sauce and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  face, he truly cares about movies, and I usually agree with his reviews ... ever! Alan Rickman!) and Army of Darkness (Bruce Campbell always deserves ... ", and not just because of the whole Tom Cruise/Oprah thing. Rather, he was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  ."]MIT Confessions[/annotation] or my behavior when I'm irritable and you've happened ... head up and down to find some table to sit at, I found myself thinking ... here." And I stood there for a minute, laughing to myself a little

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  Alan and I have been taking a class together this semester: 21W.740: Writing Autobiography and Biography. I really thought I would enjoy the ... is a somewhat privileged position to be in (and given some of those

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  : up/down, left/right, and forwards/back. The number of these directions ... areas of study in math, in particular single-variable and multivariable ... independent of our [annotation note="i.e. the notion of time and space"] "space

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  of different unusual classes and events that you can sign up for -- but ... impression that I had already seen the museum and it wasn't that great. It was ... choice for several trips I took to Boston in high school, and we never got

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  Throughout high school and my first two years of college, I extensively used a Google Doc to track all of my class assignments and personal ... flexible highlighting, font colors, etc.) and structure which didn't match

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  with a group of friends and acquaintance from MIT instead of moving back ... school and high school– I liked to think of things in term of absolutes ... of my reality and 'y' was how I was feeling. 'x' got turned into 'y' by

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... come together and talk about their shared experiences, so I decided to do ... that got a lot of attention, and I thought it might be a good idea to go

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  evolutionary tour of mankind's greatest invention, by Guy Deutscher, and it was awesome. In content, anyway. The author tends to ramble on a bit, and seems to spend a lot of time with wordy disclaimers and pretentious claims

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  and part 2 to get up to speed if you haven’t already. We spent most of days 7 and 8 rehearsing/performing our music, so half of this blog post ... ) and her husband in person for the first time. Our cast of performers was

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  My roommates and I haven’t had an outing for a while, so we went to the Museum of Science in Boston this past Sunday. I love museums, and ... very kind and enthusiastic. Apparently, MIT IDs grant you free admission

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  've been reading this book called "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman and in it he talks about an intuitive, impulsive System 1 and a ... style, my System 2 is being used. It's slower and more methodical. I type

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  After going through a quarter-life-crisis and switching a lot about ... math and my own abilities. After taking 18.02 and 18.03, I just wasn't stellar at it anymore, probably because I didn't study enough, and mostly

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  next week, and is not accepting emails or answering phone calls. The ... minute. Last minute people are playing with fire, and playing with fire isn ... to fix it and then bam — you're out of time. No good.  

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  , "Call for a good time." He showed up at the requested meeting place, and ... grown near and dear to my heart in my lifelong quest to become the ... dinner with some '08s who are now full-time techies in San Francisco, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011